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Psalm 137:9: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."
The psalms were written during a period of around two hundred years, from the time of the Babylonian Exile. By this stage, the Jews had ceased performing human sacrifices, so it can be certain that this passage is not about sacrificing one's children to God.
This Psalm was written at a time of great despair. Consider the first verse: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion [Jerusalem]." In the depths of despair and depression, the author was talking as if he would not want the children of the Jews to live and know of the great loss the Jews had suffered, and how they could no longer sing the LORD's song in a strange land. He was not literally advocating that the children be killed.
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What is the type of psalm 9?
Psalm 9 is a lament Psalm.
What does the Bible say about reverend?
In the book of Psalm chapter 111 verse 9 you can read of where it says " Holy and reverend is His name."
Where are Bible verses with the word wish in them?
Some verses that include the word wish are the following: Psalm 40:14, Psalm 73:7, Romans 9:3 and 3 John verse 2.
Bible and beards?
Leviticus chapter 13 verse 29 and 30 chapter 14 verse 19 chapter 19 verse 27 chapter 21 verse 5 1 Samuel chapter 17 verse 35 chapter 21 verse 13 2 Samuel chapter 10 verse 4 chapter 10 verse 5 chapter 19 verse 24 chapter 20 verse 9 Ezra chapter 9 verse 3 Psalm chapter 133 verse 2 Isaiah chapter 7 verse 20 chapter 15 verse 2 Jeremiah chapter 41 verse 5 chapter 48 verse 37 Ezekiel chapter 5 verse 1
Who wrote Psalm 9?
Psalm 9 is traditionally attributed to King David. However, scholars say that the psalms are a literary genre unknown at the time attributed to David. They were written anonymously over more than two hundred years, during and after the Babylonian Exile. Psalm 9 makes several triumphant references to the defeat of the heathens and the enemies, not by Israel, but by God. This could only mean that the Psalm was written after the Persian defeat of the hated Babylonians. Verse 11 says that God lives in Zion (Jerusalem), implying that the Jews was already returned from Babylon. We can not know the name of the anonymous author, but we can say that he lived some time soon after the Return from the Babylonian Exile.
